Nagisa Oshima Quotes
The concept of 'obscenity' is tested when one dares to look at something that he has an unbearable desire to see but has forbidden himself to look at. When one feels that everything that one had wanted to see has been revealed, 'obscenity' disappears, the taboo disappears as well, and there is a certain liberation.Nagisa Oshima
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi -
There's a time and place for everything. You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.
R. Kelly -
It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
Ian McLagan Small Faces -
History is a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells -
I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
Karen Elson -
I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
Quentin Tarantino
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Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.
Fidel Castro -
I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous novel 'The Underdogs,' and that says a lot about who they are and the music they make.
Daniel Alarcon -
If you want to be happy, make others happy!
Dada Vaswani -
When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.
Bailee Madison -
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
Edgar Degas -
My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
Dan Fogelberg
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Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly.
Ed Rendell -
It gives a different kind of high when, as an actor, I get to submit myself to the character I play.
Vidya Balan -
Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.
Otis Rush -
Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
No one is born evil; it's just the choices that they make.
Maisie Williams -
I would consider myself conservative but sensible and pragmatic.
Victor Mitchell
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The fun is in always building something. After it's built, you play with it awhile and then you're through. You see, we never do the same thing twice around here. We're always opening up new doors.
Walt Disney -
He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.
Tom Stoppard -
Liberation cannot be desired because desire is the bondage. When you are desireless, you are liberated.
Rajneesh -
I have always been able to rise above the expectations.
Kay Bailey Hutchison -
I don't want the viewer to be able to peel away the layers of my painting like the layers of an onion and find that all the blues are on the same level.
Chuck Close -
The concept of 'obscenity' is tested when one dares to look at something that he has an unbearable desire to see but has forbidden himself to look at. When one feels that everything that one had wanted to see has been revealed, 'obscenity' disappears, the taboo disappears as well, and there is a certain liberation.
Nagisa Oshima